Steve Panariti "The Dreamers" Solo Show

The Dreamers is a New York City exploration of city life, subway and alleyways, a trip between its inhabitants and those in the street who have made their home. Steve Panariti crossed Harlem, Manhattan and Brooklyn to continue to Coney Island, returning an instinctive tale of a sleepless homeless population, veterans asking for a dollar as help and aging women too quickly. New York models herself in an always different and sometimes inconsistent form of revelation. For decades it has been inspired by the great street photography authors, such as Mary Ellen Mark, Elliott Erwitt, or Bruce Gilden, who suddenly surprised the flash passers-by or Jeff Mermelstein, who caught extravagances in a mix of races , gestures and crafts. In the streets run by Panariti, the pieces of a real, grotesque jigsaw puzzle move. Real characters, such as muscular women and dormant keepers, or played on abandoned magazines, on billboards denouncing the disappearance, on murals, where a girl seems to be absorbed in her dreams. There are alternatives to typical urban elements, asphalt, cardboard, junk, insignia, food kiosks. Absent everyday technology objects: "dreamers" do not have computers and do not type on smartphones. They are at the same time the subject of a new photo, the mobile one, that focuses more on content and relationship with the context because the smartphone allows you to approach almost invisible to subjects to be photographed. Contrasts, unforeseen and deliberately random shots are the connotations of "The Dreamers", which records, in a direct and immediate relationship, the moods, gestures and social phenomena that make up the essence of the road. Thx to Irene Opezzo